Qualitative Analysis
Inductive research is also known as what kind of research? Think research circle…
What is bottom-up research?
The entire list of elements in a given population that you want to study (i.e. an exhaustive list of Chico State students).
What is a sampling frame?
These are the three criteria needed to demonstrate causality.
What are empirical association/correlation, time order, and NONspuriousness?
We discussed two experiments that arguably used questionable ethics to examine human behavior.
What are the Stanford Prison Study and Milgram's Obedience Experiments?
You are using this research STRATEGY for your research projects this semester to answer a "HOW" question.
What is exploratory?
One important goal of qualitative analysis is to inductively build up a systematic theory that is based on observations. This type of theory is known as:
What is grounded theory?
For the G.R.E.A.T. study, the researchers sampled 6 states, then sampled cities in those states, then sampled middle schools in those cities, and then collected data from students randomly sampled from those schools. This kind of sampling is known as…
What is cluster sampling?
To establish time order (one of the three key pieces of causality), which variable needs to come first?
What is the independent variable?
In an experiment, this group receives no treatment or experimental manipulation of an independent variable.
What is the control group?
Deductive research is also known as what kind of research? Think research circle…
What is top-down research?
You will be analyzing this type of data this semester for your research projects.
What are field notes?
The sampling method you would use if you wanted to survey soldiers in an army to determine their morale, keeping in mind that you want to gain knowledge from the perspectives of soldiers of every rank.
What is purposive sampling?
This is the term for a false relationship between two variables that is actually influenced by other confounding variables.
What is spurious?
In addition to having two groups (treatment and control), an experiment ensures a NONspurious (clean) relationship between treatment and outcome by doing what?
What is random assignment of sample to the two groups?
In our teamwork activity, we discussed TWO ways that data on a graph can be misused or unethically distorted. Name one of those ways.
Start the Y axis at something other than zero.
Omit a portion of the data.
Ethnography almost always includes collection of which two kinds of data?
What are field observations and intensive interviews?
Haerle’s friend wanted to understand the Congolese gangs of Brussels. In her sampling method, she first built a rapport with one gang member, who introduced her to another, and then that member introduced her to others. This kind of sampling is known as…
What is snowball sampling?
There is an inverse association/correlation between IQ and cigarettes smoked. However, once we consider education, IQ no longer matters. Level of education is a confounding variable that reveals the relationship between IQ and smoking to be...
What is spurious?
A TRUE experimental design always includes which two groups?
What is a treatment/experimental group and a control group?
RQ: What is the effect of the cohort program on college student GPA?
The independent variable (treatment) is what?
What is participation in the cohort program?
We discussed three steps to inductive analysis of qualitative data to develop grounded? Name one of them.
1) observations are summarized into conceptual categories (or themes)
2) categories are tested by further research
3) conceptual categories are refined and process repeats
If the people living in the U.S. are randomly selected to complete the General Social Survey and they actually reflect the larger U.S. population, then the findings from this study can be _________________ to the larger U.S. population.
What is "generalized"?
The statement "ice cream causes drownings" is spurious because it ignores the confounding variable, which is...
What is summertime / warmer weather?
In Sherman & Berk (1984), researchers used a color-coded report pad for police to determine whether to arrest, separate, or advise/mediate each domestic violence case. This process was meant to ensure a nonspurious relationship between police intervention and repeat incidents of criminal behavior. This process of using the color-coded report pad is called...
What is random assignment?
RQ: What is the effect of the cohort program on college student GPA?
The dependent variable (outcome) is what?
What is college student GPA?